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Folklore-Related Events for the 2007 - 2008 Academic Year

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Ending Wednesday, April 23
Exhibit: "Made With Devotion": The Don Yoder Collection of Religious Folk Art at Cabrini College
Exhibition Opening: Monday, February 23, 2008
Exhibition Closing: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Grace and Joseph Gorevin Fine Arts Gallery
2nd Floor, Holy Spirit Library
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
Admission is free

Tuesday, April 15, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Leela Prasad, Duke University
"Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability"
Co-sponsored by the Graudate Program in Folklore & Folklife and the Department of South Asia Studies
Location: Cherpack Room, 5th Floor, Williams Hall
A reception will immediately follow the event

Wednesday, March 5
Collaborative Forest Management Seminar, National Park Service, Philadelphia
For more information on related research done by the Center for Folklore and Ethnography in the New River Gorge National River and the Gauley  River National Recreation Area, see the CFE's research page and the Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Final Report.

Wednesday, March 5, 10-11:30 a.m.
Lecture by Dr. David J. Hufford, Professor Emeritus, Penn State College of Medicine; Adjunct Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
"Spiritual Healing: Relating the Healing Traditions of Religion and Medicine"
Templeton Research Lectureship Program on the Constructive Engagements Between Science and Religion (2005-2008), in association with the HUP Department of Pastoral Care's Spirituality, Religion, and Health Interest Group
Location: Hirst Auditorium (Dulles 1), Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
Pizza will be provided after the lecture
Registration is requested, but not required; call 215-614-0332 to register

Monday, March 3, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Deborah Kapchan, New York University
"Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco: Sufi Tourism and the Promise of Sonic Translation"
Co-sponsored by the Graudate Program in Folklore & Folklife and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
A reception will immediately follow the event

Monday, February 25, 5-8 p.m.
Exhibit: "Made With Devotion": The Don Yoder College of Religious Folk Art at Cabrini College
Exhibition Opening Events
Celebratory lecture given by Dr. David J. Hufford, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University College of Medicine; Adjunct Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
"Belief, Emotions, and the Meaning of Religious Folk Art"
Remarks by: Dr. Don Yoder, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Folklore & Folklife and Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Leonard Norman Primiano, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College
Co-sponsored with the Cabrini College Society For Religion and Science
Holy Spirit Library, Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
Admission is free

Monday, February 4, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Esther Schely-Newman, Hewbrew University
"Hanukkah in Valley Forge: A Jewish-American Folktale in Israel"
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
A reception will immediately follow the event

Monday, November 12, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Dina Roginsky, University of Toronto
"Authentic Folklorism: Israeli Folk Dancing in Israel and in America"
Co-sponsored by Graudate Program in Folklore & Folklife, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Middle East Center
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
Recommended reading:
Roginsky, D. (2007). "Folklore, Folklorism and SynchronizationL Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel." Journal of Folklore Research, 44 (1):41-66.
A reception will immediately follow the event

Monday, October 1, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Haya Bar-Itzhak, University of Haifa, Fulbright Professor of Humanities at Penn State University, Harrisburg
"In Quest of a Narrative--An Ethnography in an Israeli Kibbutz"
Co-sponsored by Graudate Program in Folklore & Folklife, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Middle East Center
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
A reception will immediately follow the event


Upcoming Conferences

Sunday, June 21-Saturday, June 27, 2009
15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR), "Narratives across Space and Time: Transmissions and Adaptations"
Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece
Deadline for registration: June 30, 2008
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2008
For more information, visit the ISFNR website.

Wednesday, October 22-Sunday, October 26, 2008
American Folklore Society 2008 Annual Meeting, “The Commons and the Commonwealth”
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2008.
For more information, visit the AFS website.

Tuesday, July 15-Wednesday, July 23, 2008
16th World Congress, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, "Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity"
Kunming, China
Registration deadline: June 15, 2008.
For more information, visit the conference website or contact the preparatory committee at iuaes2008@hotmail.com.

Monday, July 7-Thursday, July 10, 2008
Perspectives on Contemporary Legend, 26th International Conference of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR)
Camden Court Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
Deadline for abstracts: February 1, 2008.
For more information, visit the ISCLR website or contact Paul Smith at fpsmith@mun.ca.

Monday, June 16-Friday, June 10, 2008
9th SIEF Congress, SIEF2008 "Transcending "European Heritages": Liberating the Ethnological Imagination"
Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)
University of Ulster, Magee Campus, City of Derry, Northern Ireland
Local organizer: Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages
Keynote speakers: Gulnara Aitpaeva, Pertti Anttonen, Henry Glassie, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Peter Jan Margry, Sharon Macdonald, Dorothy Noyes; Helena Wulff
For more information, visit the conference website or contact Mrs. Sharon Harkin at sief2008@ulster.ac.uk.

Saturday, May 17-Sunday, May 18, 2008
Translation/Transformation OSU/IU Folklore Grad Student Conference
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
A joint conference produced by The Ohio State University Folklore Student Association and the Indiana Univeristy Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations
Deadline for abstracts: February 19, 2008.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Alan Govenar, a scholar, filmmaker, and playwright
For more information, visit the conference website at OSU or IU, or email Sheila Bock at smbock99@yahoo.com or folksa@indiana.edu.

Friday, May 2, 2008
5th Annual Graduate Student Ethnography Conference
Stony Brook University-Manhattan Campus
Department of Sociology
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2008.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley)
For more information, email Misty Curreli, Department of Sociology, at SBEthnographyConference2008@gmail.com.

Thursday, April 10-Saturday, April 12, 2008
2008 Western States Folklore Society (WSFS) Annual Meeting
University of California, Davis
Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2008.
Archer Taylor Lecture: John McDowell (Indiana University)
For more information, visit the conference website or email Dr. Jay Mechling at jemechling@ucdavis.edu.


Prizes and Other CFPs

Deadline: May 1, 2008
Dr. David Buchan Student Essay Prize for Contemporary Legend Research
Awarded by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR)
For more information about any of these prizes, email Prof. Paul Smith at fpsmith@mun.ca.

Deadline
: Saturday, March 15, 2008
MacEdward Leach Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
Don Yoder Undergraduate Paper Prize Competition
Kenneth S. Goldstein Award
Awarded by the Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklfe
For more information about any of these prizes, email Prof. Dan Ben-Amos at dbamos@sas.upenn.edu.


Past Events, Conferences, and Other Deadlines

Friday, April 4-Saturday, April 5, 2008
American Play: Sports, Games, Entertainment, and Fantasy in American Culture
Sponsored by the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association and the Great Lakes American Studies Associaion, in cooperation with the Strong National Museum of Play
Strong National Museum of Play/Hyatt Regency Rochester, Rochester, New York
Deadline for abstracts: December 14, 2007.
For more information, visit the conference website or email Dr. Simon Bronner at sbronner@psu.edu.

Thursday, April 3-Friday, April 4, 2008
Hoosier Folklore Conference, "Reconsiderations of Folk Literature"
Hulman Memorial Student Union, Dede III
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2007.
Honorary Schick lecturers are Barre Toelken (Utah) and Trudier Harris (UNC, Chapel Hill)
For more information, visit the conference website or email Dr. Nan McEntire at nmcentire@indstate.edu.

Wednesday, April 2-Friday, April 4, 2008
1st International Student Symposium on "Folklore and Ethnomusicoogy"
Istanbul Technical University Musicology Club, Instanbul, Turkey
Deadline for abstracts (English or Turkish): February 25, 2008.
For more information, visit the conference website or email muzikbilimisempozyum2008@gmail.com or muzikbilimi@itu.edu.tr with questions.

Wednesday, March 19-Saturday, March 22, 2008
National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference
San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, California
Deadline for abstracts: November 30, 2007. (deadline extended)
Calls for papers from some folklore-related areas include:
For more information, visit the conference website, or contact the appropriate subject area chair.
PCA/ACA participants from the Penn Folklore community

Thursday, February 21-Saturday, February 23, 2008
7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Lanuage and Literature, "On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture"
Hilton Garden Inn, Lafayette, Louisiana
Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2007.
For more information, visit the conference website or Matthew Hackler, Conference Chair, at mbh1010@louisiana.edu.

Friday, February 15-Sunday, February 17, 2008
MYTH: A Graduate Conference in German & Scandinavian Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Deadline for abstracts: November 10, 2007.
For more information, visit the conference website or email Evan Torner at  etorner@german.umass.edu.

Friday, November 16-Sunday, November 18, 2007
Fantasy Matters Conference
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2007.
For more information, visit the conference website.

Sunday, November 11, 2007, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Painting By Memory, with Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett and Mayer Kirschenbatt
Part of the 2007 First Person Festival, Food, Literary, Visual Art
First Person Stage, 2111 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA
$20 (includes brunch)
For more information, visit the event website.

Wednesday, October 17-Sunday, October 21, 2007
American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Meeting
“The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage”
Hilton Québec, Québec, Canada
Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2007.
For more information, visit the AFS website.
Click here for a list of AFS participants from the University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, September 20-Saturday, September 22, 2007
ISFNR Interim Conference, "Folk Narrative and Society"
Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Deadline for registration and abstracts: March 15, 2007.
For more information, visit the ISFNR website.

Deadline: Saturday, September 15, 2007
Don Yoder Prize for Best Student Paper
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society
For more information, download the prize announcement as a Word doc.

Deadline: Saturday, September 15, 2007
Elli Kongas-Maranda Student Prize
Women's Section of the American Folklore Society
For more information, email Prof. Patricia Sawin at sawin@unc.edu.


To submit a folklore-related event for inclusion on this calendar, email Linda Lee at linda.lee@mindspring.com, and please put "Folklore Events Calendar" in the subject heading.

View the Folklore events calendar for the 2006-2007 academic year

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